Tuesday, 4 March 2014

A hike in the snow

The island of Tenerife in the Canary islands was my holiday destination last week. Here are a couple of views of the fantastic hike we did inside the caldeira of the Teide, the 3700 metre volcanic peak that dominates the island. It had snowed the weekend before and the scenery was amazing.

There's no snow on the coast cause Tenerife is located at the same latitude as southern Morocco. But with an altitude of over 12,000 feet, the Teide does get snow (in winter only) when the rest of the island gets rain. When we were there the first week, there was very little snow up there but they had a big snow storm at the weekend so we decided to go back up there to see it. We weren't disappointed, it was spectacular!

There's no snow on the coast cause Tenerife is located at the same latitude as southern Morocco. But with an altitude of over 12,000 feet, the Teide does get snow (in winter only) when the rest of the island gets rain. When we were there the first week, there was very little snow up there but they had a big snow storm at the weekend so we decided to go back up there to see it. We weren't disappointed, it was spectacular!

After six years in Australia and five years of city life in Avignon I moved to the countryside near the small village of Beaumes-de-Venise. Once dedicated to street photography my blog has since taken a more rural note but the beautiful region of Provence is an constant source of inspiration.